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...Government thought this over. Finally it gave its answer through prim, schoolmasterish Lord Privy Seal Clement R. Attlee. Rasped the Lord Privy Seal like a tired tutor: "Nine p.m., British time, is not 9 p.m. throughout the Empire. It is inappropriate to broadcast nine strokes of Big Ben when it is 6 a.m. in Australia and the middle of the night in India...
...leaders, thanks to the war emergency, have vastly increased their political power. Therefore, the avowed aims and purposes of the British Labor Party, collected from recent statements and resolutions, make interesting reading. There are pronouncements by Laborites Arthur Greenwood, Herbert Morrison (Minister of Home Security), Philip Noel Baker, Clement Attlee, Hugh Dalton, Leonard Woolf and Harold Laski...
...Clement Attlee...
...Communist demonstration and, while bombs drooped outside, listened to a debate in the House of Commons. He had a long talk with men working on the London sewers, an all evening session that lasted until two in the morning with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Major Clement Attlee...
Party Leader Clement Richard Attlee said, soon after the war began: "There must be an international force possessed of such overwhelming strength that no would-be aggressor would dare challenge it. ... Bold economic planning on a world scale will be . . . imperative...